Doctoral Dissertation Research: Remittance Management During Disaster Recovery

博士论文研究：灾后恢复期间的汇款管理

• 批准号: 1833226
• 负责人: Susan Roberts
• 金额: $ 1.75万
• 依托单位: University of Kentucky Research Foundation
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2018-09-01 至 2020-02-29
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1833226&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Remittance; Management

This doctoral dissertation research improvement project analyzes the roles of different community's members in the decision-making about remittance allocations during disaster recovery. Human migration flows across borders is matched by financial (remittances) and communication counter-flows that sustain both the migrant at their destination and their families at their origin. Remittances sent by migrants are commonly used to meet basic consumption needs and for investment in education and housing, but they are also a key resource that communities mobilize in the aftermath of natural disasters. While it is generally understood that remittances constitute an important source of household income and contributor to community development projects, particularly during disaster recovery, what is less understood is the role of women in the decision-making about the use of remittances during such recoveries. This project will inform the understandings of how remittance management is organized at the local level, specifically women's roles in decision-making, and has the potential to inform policy to be more attuned to the significance of the role of women in remittance management, especially in post-disaster recovery situations. As a Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement award, this project will provide support to enable a promising doctoral student. This project advances knowledge on how global migration and finance flows rely upon and rework family networks and local communities. It will do so by answering two central research questions. First, it assesses how a community manages remittances in the context of other financial and resources inputs, especially when stressed due to a natural disaster. Second, it investigates how negotiations over remittances are transforming the lives of women. Specifically, this research project will analyze (1) the precise ways that remittances are managed after a natural disaster; (2) how women participate in remittance management at the household and community level; and (3) how the process of negotiating the use of remittances is transforming the responsibilities, labor, and social involvement of women in communities. The doctoral student will combine a comprehensive household survey with qualitative methods such as archival research, participant observation, and semi-structured interviews in a case study of the post-earthquake recovery in Oaxaca, Mexico. The research will contribute new theoretical insights on the relationship between gender, labor, and citizenship as well as generate new findings on how global migration and remittance flows are mobilized by family networks and local communities in post-disaster situations.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

该博士论文研究改进项目分析了不同社区成员在灾难恢复期间汇款分配决策中的作用。 人类跨境移民流动与金融（汇款）和通讯逆流相匹配，这些逆流既维持了目的地的移民，也维持了原籍地的家人。 移民汇款通常用于满足基本消费需求以及教育和住房投资，但它们也是社区在自然灾害发生后动员的关键资源。 虽然人们普遍认为汇款是家庭收入的重要来源，也是社区发展项目的重要来源，特别是在灾后恢复期间，但人们对妇女在灾后恢复期间汇款使用决策中的作用却知之甚少。 该项目将让人们了解如何在地方一级组织汇款管理，特别是妇女在决策中的作用，并有可能使政策更加适应妇女在汇款管理中的作用的重要性，特别是在灾后恢复情况。 作为博士论文研究改进奖，该项目将为有前途的博士生提供支持。该项目增进了人们对全球移民和资金流动如何依赖和改造家庭网络和当地社区的了解。 它将通过回答两个核心研究问题来实现这一目标。 首先，它评估社区如何在其他财政和资源投入的背景下管理汇款，特别是在因自然灾害而承受压力的情况下。 其次，它调查了汇款谈判如何改变妇女的生活。 具体来说，该研究项目将分析（1）自然灾害后汇款管理的精确方式； (2) 妇女如何参与家庭和社区层面的汇款管理； (3) 汇款使用的谈判过程如何改变妇女在社区中的责任、劳动和社会参与。 该博士生将在墨西哥瓦哈卡州震后恢复的案例研究中，将全面的家庭调查与档案研究、参与观察和半结构化访谈等定性方法结合起来。 该研究将为性别、劳动力和公民身份之间的关系提供新的理论见解，并就灾后情况下家庭网络和当地社区如何动员全球移民和汇款流产生新的发现。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命通过使用基金会的智力优点和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，并被认为值得支持。